Necktie-supporter.



No. 881,878 PATENTED SEPT. 25, 1906. J. R. KNOWLES.

NEGKTIE SUPPGRTER. APPLICATION FILED 00T.s1,'1905.

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

JOHN ROSS KNOIVLES, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM FAIROHILDPEEBLES, OF RARITAN, NEIV JERSEY.

NECKTlE-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 25, 1906.

Application filed October 81, 1905. Serial No. 285,235.

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Be it known that I, JOHN Ross KNowLEs, a citizen of the United States,residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in N ecktie-Supporters, of which the following is a speci- Iication.

My invention relates to necktie-supporters used more particularly withthe turn-down collar, and has for its objects to provide a device thatwill hold the tie tight up against the collar and prevent the same fromwork ing loose after once adjusted and to provide a means by which thetie may be conveniently adjusted and removed from the collar-button.

The foregoing and other features of my invention will now be describedin connection with the accompanying one sheet of drawings, forming partof this specification, in which I have represented my necktie-supporterembodying the improvements in the preferred form, after which I shallpoint out more particularly in the claim those features which I believeto be new and of my own invention.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which similar characters ofreference indicate like parts throughout the several views, Figure 1 isan enlarged View of my necktiesupporter. Fig. 2 illustrates mynecktiesupporter attached to a collar-button with a high turned-downcollar. Fig. 3 illustrates my necktie-supporter in position on button,collar low type.

The necktie-supporter is made of a single piece of wire, preferably oftempered steel, the ends being soldered or fastened in any convenientmanner at 1, which is curved laterally to follow the contour of theunder side of the fold of the turn-over collar, as shown in Figs. 1, 2,and 3. 2 is a loop with ends 3 and 4 crossing at 5, where they bendupwardly at 6 and outwardly at 7 and thence upwardly at S and inwardlyat 9, where they are joined together at 1, as previously explained.

The modes opercmrlt is as follows: A piece of cloth or fabric 10 isfolded over the longitudinal curved member 1 and the ends passed througha ring 11, or they may be tied in a knot at will. The supporter is thenpressed up under the collar, and the loop is opened by pressing thepoints 6 together and sprung over the collar-button. The supporter being constructed of spring-wire, pressure is brought to bear on the underside of the turn-over collar and the top of the collar-button. This isforcibly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. In the latter the supporter isillustrated attached to a collar-button, the collar being of a very lowtype. By this means the supporter is held securely in place, and it isimpossible for it to come off the button.

There are many tie-supporters now in use; but they all have the samedisadvantage that is, they are not secured by proper means to thecollar-button and held there by continual pressure. I do not claim anyparticular means for attaching my supporter to the collar-button.

I wish it distinctly understood that my necktie-supporter hereinillustrated and described is in the form which I desire to con struct itand that any changes or variations may be made as may be convenient ordesirable without departing from the salient features of my invention,and I therefore .intend the following claim to cover such modificationsas naturally fall within the lines of invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a spring-wire necktie-supporter, in combination, a member adapted toengage a collar-button shank, with a longitudinal tiesupporting membercurved laterally so as to conform to the contour of the under side ofthe fold in a turn-over collar and spring connections between theaforesaid button-engag ing member and the tie-supporting member, saidconnections forming the sole connection between said button-engagingmember and said tie-supporting member, whereby the tie is held tightlyto, and to conform with, the under side of the fold in the turn-overcollar.

This specification signed and witnessed this 27th day of October, A. D.1905.

JOHN ROSS KNOWLES.

In presence of GEO. WV. CLARKE, EDwD. VAN WINKLE.

